08-05-2007, 06:28 PM
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Blacktown isn't so black
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Prospect, NSW, 2148
Posts: 1,316
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Largest supernovae ever seen!
Cal astronomy professor, Alex Filippenko who some IIS members communicated with two weeks ago has led a ground breaking supernovae team.
A star, perhaps 150 times bigger than our sun, that went super-nova hundreds of millions of years ago-- is just now giving scientists a look into our past. It was a gargantuan explosion-- and the most spectacular event of it's kind astronomers have ever seen.
Read more here: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5283594
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